as in seemingly
to all outward appearances
he stops by his old office periodically, ostensively just to say "hi"
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ostensively
Adverb
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The ongoing, seemingly relentless AI integration, has introduced a subtle but significant risk: agency decay.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025 -
Edwards missed the second frame after exiting the floor with a towel pressed against his face after seemingly getting poked in the eye.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
29 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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While the company plans to focus on growing its market share, specifically increasing its 10% share of the $10 billion bridal jewelry market and mid-single-digit share of the over $50 billion fashion jewelry market, Signet apparently couldn’t do that in 2024.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Both were apparently among thousands of political asylum aspirants who entered the United States from Mexico legally via an immigration process scrapped by the Trump administration.—
Patrick J. McDonnell,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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There will even be an argument for the Giants to thread the needle and trade a veteran starter to make room for a younger one, while still ostensibly contending and adding on the offensive side.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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As an ostensibly neutral arbitrator who is subject to the same constraints as judges, such conversations by a PURA commissioner are considered improper.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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Unlike in dictatorships, this tends to involve not overt methods like book burning but quieter techniques such as co-opting media company shareholders to slant their coverage or using limited censorship supposedly designed to fight extremism or child pornography.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Apr. 2025
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For instance, Tyler Perry and his studios were supposedly on an advisory board, and they were described as pledging to promote the Dream.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Promoting Tsunoda to the main squad seemed an obvious fix to the Perez problem, but Red Bull bosses Christian Horner and Helmut Marko evidently believed otherwise.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 Mar. 2025
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But last year, wielding power was evidently a drag on leaders’ popularity, for reasons apparently not rooted in the specifics of the politics of their countries.—
Moisés Naím,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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But ‘George & Tammy’ had been a hit, and Showtime had presumably profited handsomely from Georgette’s breach.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2025
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The Brave engine under the hood has implications for individuals, organizations, or companies that might want to block Claude from accessing their sites since, presumably, Brave's web crawler is doing the web indexing.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Ostensively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ostensively. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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